What's News: World-Wide

Few Americans favor cutting entitlement programs. A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found a large majority of Americans consider it "unacceptable" to make significant reductions to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country's mounting deficit. Over half of respondents favored bumping the retirement age to 69 by 2075, and an even larger share supported reducing benefit payments to wealthier people.
The White House called on leaders of both parties to join intensive budget talks that will be led by Biden.
Pentagon officials played down the prospect of an international military intervention in Libya as rebels called for foreign air strikes.
Libyan rebels drove Gadhafi forces out of Brega, where the regime loyalists had seized an airport and oil refinery.
The Supreme Court ruled for a church that pickets military funerals, saying that the First Amendment protects even "hurtful speech."
Justices appeared skeptical of an attempt to sue former Attorney General Ashcroft over post-Sept. 11 detentions.
Ohio's Senate passed a bill curbing public-employee bargaining. Wisconsin Democrats were fined for fleeing the state to prevent a similar vote.
Some GOP lawmakers may back Brown's plan to ask voters for extended tax increases to close California's deficit.
Bill Gates is urging an overhaul of states' employee-benefits plans, saying they take money from schools.
Petraeus issued a rare apology for an errant helicopter strike in Afghanistan that killed nine children, hours after Karzai condemned the attack.
Two U.S. servicemen were shot and killed in Germany in what investigators called a possible terrorist attack.
Suspected Islamic militants in Pakistan killed a Christian cabinet minister who opposed the nation's blasphemy law.
U.S. officials are beginning to talk about the possibility of keeping some troops in Iraq beyond year's end.
Two senators are pushing legislation that would let the public see what individual physicians earn from Medicare.
The Army filed 22 new charges against the private accused of providing classified documents to WikiLeaks.
The U.N. admitted it mistakenly accused Belarus of sending helicopters to forces backing Ivory Coast's Gbagbo.
Mugabe told a political rally that his countrymen must be prepared to take over Western companies in Zimbabwe.
A California board denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin.